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The Escherian Stairwell

submitted by truth-is-the-nemesis

1 decade 1 year 7 months ago

Is it possible for a staircase to violate the laws of physics and basic logic by looping back into itself? This is one of the questions Michael Lacanilao, a film and animation graduate student at RIT, examines in his video series and Imagine RIT exhibit The Escherian Stairwell.

Lacanilao created the video series, “Can You Imagine,” to highlight the many interesting facts & stories of RIT. The exhibit, located in Artistic Alley in Gannett Hall room A171, will help festivalgoers search for the stairwell and give them a behind the scenes look at “Can You Imagine.”

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Oh wow. *promote

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Friday, May 3rd, 2013 8:19pm PDT - promote requested by doogle.

Rawhead says...

Amazing and all, but the white nerdy guy-black guy interaction at the end? WOW! "I dont know what that means"!

kuertee says...

Google is your friend. The video above was released to generate interest in a Kickstarter project to "build the myth about the stairs". It failed. Here's more info on it: http://www.geeknative.com/39630/the-amazing-escherian-stairwell-illusion-video-and-the-myth/

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*magic

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*lies *debunked

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*nochannel *wtf *magic

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Rosie? How do you say that incorrectly?

As soon as the first guy demonstrated it... obviously fake.

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